Illegal, often violent, resistance by the Sons of Liberty to __________ may be seen as
marking the start of the revolution.
A) the Proclamation of 1763
B) colonial assemblies
C) the Boston Massacre
D) the Stamp Act
Like fellow westerners, President Jackson __________.
A) did not favor internal improvements
B) preferred that local projects be left to the states
C) believed that the federal government should maintain a budget surplus
D) thought presidential power should be interpreted narrowly
What was the political impact of the Compromise of 1877?
A) Democrats regained the White House for the first time since 1856.
B) Republicans maintained their majority in the Senate and on the Supreme Court.
C) The compromise secured the continuation of Reconstruction.
D) The deal allowed white Democrats to oust black Republicans from the House.
How did the American government finance the Revolutionary War?
A) by borrowing from Great Britain
B) by taxing American citizens directly
C) by borrowing from Canada
D) by selling bonds overseas
Walter Camp played a major role in establishing __________.
A) baseball as a major sport
B) the role of religion in education
C) football as a major sport
D) the Boy Scouts of America
As a result of black demands for economic independence and the shortage of capital,
the South developed the agricultural system known as __________.
A) sharecropping
B) gang labor
C) tenant farming
D) wage-crop economics
What was the main cause of southern rural poverty for both whites and blacks?
A) harsh treatment by Radical Republicans
B) lack of capital to finance their sharecropping economy
C) failure of new varieties of cotton to thrive
D) an ill-advised attempt at rapid industrialization
In 1840, California could be most accurately described as __________.
A) unmistakably Mexican, with only a handful of white American settlers
B) still almost entirely controlled and owned by a series of Catholic mission.
C) one of the few areas where the Native Americans were guaranteed the same civil
rights as whites
D) dominated by white Americans, with only a handful of Mexican settlers
On what grounds did Jackson defend his veto of the charter of the Second National
Bank?
A) It was too weak to help stabilize the economy.
B) It was unable to attract foreign investors.
C) It was dominated by speculators in western land.
D) It was unconstitutional.
The dramatic labor troubles of 1877 were __________.
A) centered in Pennsylvania’s coal fields
B) the result of significant gains in prosperity for business
C) more violent and destructive than any previous strike in America
D) the work of foreign labor agitators
Colonial women generally, and New England women in particular, were __________.
A) better educated than colonial men
B) seen by men as primarily mothers and wives
C) able to vote in town meetings and hold local office
D) routinely involved in civic and political affairs
In his writing, Henry James was most interested in which of the following?
A) social issues
B) his subjects as individuals
C) the issues faced by artists in the modern world
D) uneducated Americans
What was President Benjamin Harrison noted for?
A) His strong advocacy of free trade.
B) His hard work for civil service reform.
C) His flamboyant waving of the “bloody shirt.”
D) His resistance to the demands for increased veterans’ pensions.
What defined the “Era of Good Feelings”?
A) the absence of organized political parties opposing each other
B) the return to the political and economic philosophy of Jefferson
C) the exceptionally strong leadership by Monroe as head of his party
D) the absence of any divisive political and economic issues
What did Congress do when the South Vietnamese army and government collapsed in
1975?
A) It decided to send U.S. marines to Cambodia to break the North Vietnamese supply
lines.
B) It poured more arms into the South to stop North Vietnam’s advance.
C) It refused to send more arms to South Vietnam.
D) It called upon the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to stabilize Vietnam.
Which president was known for his “pell-mell” style of plain dress and informal
entertaining?
A) George Washington
B) John Adams
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) James Madison
Of the 326 corporations chartered by states between 1781 and 1801, __________.
A) only a few engaged in manufacturing
B) the majority involved the domestic slave trade
C) not one was involved in the building of infrastructure
D) none were involved in banking
What was one result of the gold and silver rushes of the late nineteenth century?
A) inflation because of the coining of the new metals
B) retarded political development in the West
C) a dramatic decline in the value of the dollar in the world market
D) an improved financial position for America in world trade
From November 1979 to January 1981, American embassy personnel in which country
were held hostage as a result of the dramatic revolution there?
A) Libya
B) Iraq
C) Lebanon
D) Iran
Why was indentured servitude much worse for women than it was for men?
A) European women were not used to hard labor.
B) Women in the colonies had much higher death rates than men.
C) Women had their time of service extended if they became pregnant.
D) Women’s indenture contracts were longer because the English believed that women
worked more slowly.
Before John Brown was executed by Virginia for treason, conspiracy, and murder,
__________.
A) he behaved like a madman
B) the numerous other plots of his followers were uncovered
C) he behaved with such enormous dignity that many Northerners saw him as a martyr
D) his dramatic confessions implicated numerous abolitionists in his attack on Harpers
Ferry
Late-nineteenth-century naturalist writers such as Stephen Crane portrayed
__________.
A) customs and dialects identified with a particular region of the country
B) society somewhat realistically, but emphasized the ‘smiling aspects” of life
C) humans as mere animals in a merciless Darwinian world
D) virtuous heroines and heroes in mortal combat with dastardly villains
What was Parliament’s main goal in the Tea Act of 1773?
A) to repeal the Townshend tea tax
B) to aid the British East India Tea Company
C) to force a new tax upon the colonies
D) to prohibit the production of tea in the colonies
How did Republican presidential nominee Patrick Buchanan describe immigration in
1992?
A) as a valued American tradition
B) as an expression of ambition and family values
C) as the greatest invasion the nation had ever witnessed
D) as the flipside of a much larger process of globalization
Why did King James I object to the cultivation of tobacco in Virginia?
A) He feared that smoking was an unhealthy habit for his subjects.
B) He did not see the commercial value of a crop that would literally go up in smoke.
C) He understood that the French had already established far better tobacco plantations
in the Caribbean.
D) He did not want colonists to compete with English tobacco planters.
Which of the following best describes Darwin’s theory of evolution’s impact on
religious thought in America?
A) It had almost no effect. It did not even have an impact on intellectuals.
B) It seriously crippled the appeal of fundamentalist churches.
C) It gravely weakened the religious faith of a majority of Americans.
D) It did not undermine the faith of a large percentage of the population.
Which of the following statements about the U.S. highway system in the nineteenth
century is true?
A) For military purposes, the U.S. government began the task of creating an integrated
system of roads across the country.
B) The U.S. government concentrated on building roads in mountainous areas and left
the rest to privateers.
C) The U.S. government had no comprehensive highway program in the nineteenth
century.
D) The construction of highways was the one subject where sectional rivalries did not
surface.
Who was the former slave who preached resistance to slavery and planned a major
slave uprising in Charleston?
A) David Walker
B) James Hamlet
C) Nat Turner
D) Denmark Vesey
In the new industrial slums of the 1850s, most factory workers were able to survive
only because __________.
A) the owners provided free housing
B) their strong unions secured higher wages
C) they raised chickens and maintained urban vegetable gardens
D) their wives and children also worked in the factories
Open-range cattle raising was virtually ended by which of the following?
A) importation of cheap beef from Argentina
B) completion of the transcontinental railroad
C) registration of cattle brands and improvements in scientific breeding
D) combination of the drought of 1886 and the blizzards of 1886″1887
Who founded the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry in 1867?
A) Henry George
B) Daniel De Leon
C) James S. Hogg
D) Oliver H. Kelley
Characters asked themselves, “What would Jesus do?” in Charles M. Sheldon’s
best-selling Social Gospel novel, __________.
A) Applied Christianity
B) How the Other Half Lives
C) In His Steps
D) A Life for Christ